Culture editor Robert Bound’s trip to Doha took in Damien Hirst’s ginormous new sculpture – part of Qatar’s epic and expensive effort to boost its cultural cachet.

Last week was Qatar’s biggest for art. The Gulf state – oil rich and acquisitive with it – has spent billions on big museums designed by famous architects that it’s filling with expensive art and antiquities.

As an iconic work of contemporary art goes under the hammer in London tomorrow, culture editor Robert Bound assesses the importance of Tracey Emin’s unmade bed.

Tomorrow Christie’s will sell one of the two most famous works of art made in the last 20 years. When I interviewed Tracey Emin about “My Bed” last week she said that she didn’t really make it: that it made her. It did. It…

Mexico City’s magnificent new Museo Jumex gallery opens to the public this week. Designed by David Chipperfield and exhibiting works by Mexico’s finest, Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound jetted out to the Mexican cap…

This week, the Museo Jumex opens to the public in Mexico City after it’s glitz-blitz VIP opening this weekend (more on that in a bit, I mean you don’t just want to know about the paintings do you?). The museum was built by…

Learning from a master is a privilege in any sphere. To nurture ideas for the arts, Rolex’s Mentor & Protégé initiative has been teaming world-leading practitioners with promising prodigies around the globe. Monocle's…

In our second film from the Venice Art Biennale, Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound goes off piste to explore the curatorial instincts at François Pinault’s new Punta Della Dogana, the Fondazione Prada’s John Wesley…

The Prix Pictet award’s worthy mission is to promote photographic excellence and environmental sustainability. In its inaugural year the theme was water and the winner, announced by Kofi Annan in Paris, was Canadian phot…

After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look? At MIPCOM, the TV industry's annual market for shows and ideas both good and bad, culture editor Robert Bound strolls the…

The Montreux Jazz festival is a celebration of music in beautiful mountain surroundings with eclectic acts, good food and an atmosphere more focused on bonhomie than going bananas. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound…